How do you pronounce the word 'put'?

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I've spent the weekend entirely confused by the word 'put'. Apparently it's a red/tricky word in phonics but surely it's just a phonetic pronunciation and rhymes with cut or but. Is it a dialect thing? Or have I been pronouncing put wrong my entire life?

This makes perfect sense to me, the oo in look, but I have a feeling it will confuse many! 😆
I'm in Ireland and despite regional accents, I think overall we'd be fairly consistent on put/foot and but/cut.. but perhaps I'll stand corrected!

@mikado1 I am from Glasgow.

Sane as gut

I'm originally West Yorks. I have always rhymed put with foot, not with but or cut.
I remember as a child being confused when a friend rhymed buck (gymnast horse) with book (a much less impressive thing to spring over) but I have never heard put and but pronounced the same.

Do you pronounce gut and foot the same?

Sorry, CM283648, by 'we' I meant Irish people 😃 Wasn't suggesting you were Irish. Saw above, some other Scottish and London posters say it the same as me and you (and others).

I'm Irish (Munster) and pronounce but to rhyme with foot and put.
Cut is different, rhymes with putt.

@mikado1 Gut sounds like how I would say money, foot sounds like I would say put.

Is it in RWI?
I think I remember asking the teacher this and the answer was the series originates from the north east where they pronounce put to rhyme with shoot

Same here! North Surrey.

Same here in N London. DD learnt put, push and pull together as a similar short sound to foot and soot.

Boot etc a longer "oo" sound.

Cut etc pronounced as a phonetic "u" like umbrella but I guess that "u" sound might vary depending on where you're from! As a pp said in my mouth it is an open mouthed sound.

It rhymes with foot.

It dies not rhyme with boot or but.

(For me)

'Foot' is pronounced fut

How?! How on earth does 'put' rhyme with boot?!?! Here is how you're supposed to say it. Press the play button here: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:en-uk-to_put.ogg

The phonics scheme we use has a note to say words such as put, pull and ask (and there are more) will not be tricky words in some accents (I think 'regional variations' is the term used).

@SchoolTripDrama you are seemingly unaware of different accents and dialects within British (and other nationalities of) English. These variations are all equally as regular, rule governed and correct.
There is no "should" when it comes to pronunciation.
Unless you really think that the whole of, say, Scotland pronounce everything wrongly? Go and announce that loudly on a Friday night in Glasgow, I dare you.

@BettyUnderswoob Where on earth did you get that from? Are you always so defensive? We're not talking about Scotland! We're talking about pronunciations in England as far as I'm aware

Really? Not sure we are.
In any case the same applies. Substitute Newcastle for Scotland then.

Sorry, that was about @SchoolTripDrama s post to @BettyUnderswoob

But but and foot rhyme!

Accents vary within England, too @SchoolTripDrama !

I'm pretty sure nobody has suggested we're only talking about England at all.

In my accent all of the words people have mentioned (put, putt, gut, hut, mutt, foot, soot, but, butt, cut, shut etc.) have the same short vowel sound and rhyme/sound the same.
Boot, moot, loot, suit, coot, root have a long -oo- sound.
Grew up in North Yorkshire.

South East here.

Put rhymes with foot. But it definitely doesn’t rhyme with boot - that has a longer oo sound! So boot rhymes with loot.

Putt (as in golf) rhymes with cut and but.

Love the fact we’re all so different!

It is phonically decodable though, it's just a different sound spelt the same way.

As others have said, push, pull, bush, puss etc all use this short "uh" sound. The same sound is used for all of the short u sounds like cut, mutt etc.

(I'm saying short but I don't think short/long are terms used in phonics schemes are they?)

It's just because put is a word that children are likely to need to use before they have learnt that specific sound that makes it a tricky word.

🙄at the idea that RP is the "correct" pronunciation. All accents are correct.